Improvement in envelopes



G. F. TAYLOR.

ENVELOPES.

No. 185,14 Patented Dec.5, 1876.

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GEORGE F. TAYLOR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN ENVELOPES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185, [44, datedDecember 5,1876; application filed October 16, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. TAYLOR, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New-York, have invented certain Improvements in Bagsfor Mailing Samples, Circulars, &c., of which the following is aspecification:

The object of my invention is to provide a vertical mid-section of thesame, taken in a plane at right angles to Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 illustrates the manner of examining the contents by compressingthe bag edgewise.

Let A represent the back wall of the flattened body of the bag, and Athe front wall, upon which the address and stamp should be placed. Themouth B of the bag is provided with a flap, 0, which may be aprolongation of the wall A, and be gummed in the processof manufacture,or left ungummed, as

desired;

WVhen the bag is to be used for mailing unwritten matter-samples,circulars, Stc.these are put in at the mouth B, and the flap 0 thensealed down, as in an ordinary letter-envelope.

The bottom D of the bag is constructed as The lower end of the frontwall A of the bag is prolonged to form a tapered tongue, E, which isdoubled back on the inside of the bag, passes out through a slit, a, inthe back wall A of the bag, and in again at a slit, b, in the same ashort distance below. The tongue E forms the only bottom to the bag, andthis is so inclined that when the contents of the bag press into thespace 0, Fig. 2, behind the tongue, it serves to lock the latter quitefirmly in the slits, so firmly,

indeed, that the ordinary rough usage in mailing will not disarrange it.

It will be observed that the tongue E does not entirely close up thebottom of the bag, but leaves space enough to fulfill the requirementsof the postal laws regarding the examination of packages. If, however,it is required, for any reason, to carefullyexamine the contents of anypackage, the tongue E may be readily removed from the locking-slits, andthe contents entirely removed from the bag. After examination thecontents may be replaced, and the bag relocked as it was at first.

Where several samples are to be inclosed in one bag they may be placedseparately in small unsealed envelopes, and these be put in the bag.This will serve to keep the samples separate and prevent their escape atthe openings in the bottom.

This bag may be constructed of any suitable material, and be puttogether in any known way. The exact size and shape is immaterial, andit may be made of one piece, or several pieces, as found mostconvenient.

1. As a new article of manufacture, a mailing-bag, of paper or othersuitable material,

having an open mouth and a flap at the upper end, and an unsealedbottom, constructed substantially as herein set forth.

2'. As a new article of manufacture, a mailing-bag, of paper or othersuitable material, for unwritten matter, having a bottom, D, formed ofthe tapered tongue E, interlocked through the slits a b by being passedout wardly through the upper slit to, and inwardly through the lowerslit 1), thus forming a habitually-locked bottom without adhesivematter, substantially as set forth.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses. I

GEORGE F. TAYLOR. Witnesses:

HENRY CONNETT, ARTHUR O. FRASER.

